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Take that Tony! (Blair)

Who needs friends and confidantes?....From The Huffington Post on former Brit PM, Tony Blair - whom many consider a war criminal, alongside George Bush and Australia's PM John Howard because of their "involvement" and actions in connection with the Iraq War.

"Tony Blair is a narcissist with a messiah complex who lives a tragic life, according to his former friend Robert Harris.

The best-selling author, a once close confidant of the former prime minister who has since become a fierce critic, lashed out at Blair for turning his back on parliament once he quit as PM to go and "hang out with a lot of rich people in America".

In his latest attack on the former Labour leader, who has never escaped the legacy of Iraq, Harris also holds up Lord Mandelson, who has been known to associate with a super-rich crowd, as a paragon of plain living and frugality compared to ex-premier.

Harris, a former political journalist, is the author of The Ghost, a book turned into a film about a former British prime minister who faces being hauled in front of the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, which he previously described as being somewhere "between reality and fiction".

Asked about Blair's life today, he told Total Politics: "I find it tragic. I think it's presumptuous of me to say so but I can't believe there isn't an element of tragedy that he himself feels, that a relatively young man in political terms should cut himself off from British democracy in the way that he has, because he could have had one of those 19th century careers and come back, as foreign secretary or maybe even as party leader, but he turned his back on it and walked out of the place."

"Palestinian municipal elections were supposed to be held last week. Instead, they were canceled. A statement released by the Palestinian Authority claimed the cancellation was "in order to pave the way for a successful end to the siege on Gaza and for continued efforts at unity" between Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, and the government in the West Bank.

The cancellation of this election was an unjustified, unlawful, and unacceptable act. It damages democratic rights and makes a mockery of the interests of the Palestinian people.

But this is far more than an internal Palestinian issue. The only lasting peace between Isr…